Helping Quotes - Page 8

• We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Historical, Tools, Eras

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• Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

  Zhang Zai

  Grief, Blessing, Anxiety

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• I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

  Jane Goodall

  Heart, People, Effort

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• President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

  Bob Dole

  Wish, President, Needs

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  Quintus Ennius

  Wise, Being Wise

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• It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dirty, Ideas, Politics

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• Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Natural, Guides, Prudence

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

  Jillian Michaels

  People, Trying, Agendas

  "Jillian Michaels On Motherhood And Her Return to The Biggest Loser". Interview with Carita Rizzo, www.tvguide.com. January 4, 2013.

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• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Inexperience

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

  Marlo Thomas

  Years, Two, Track

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• I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

  Lynne Truss

  Dad, Eggs, People

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

  Lewis Thomas

  Lying, Moving, Ideas

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

  Thomas Gray

  Atheist, Religion, Belief

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• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Directors, Actors, Help Me

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• Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Running, Helping Others, People

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• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Reality, Magic

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• Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

  Maureen Howard

  Acceptance, Needs, Aging

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• Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Art, Reality, Imagination

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• I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as he lives, man cannot help enjoying himself, even if he tries not... . Today the average person, when he hears the word pleasure, immediately thinks of something immoral. But nothing could be more wrong.

  Kafu Nagai

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• ... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

  Samuel Florman

  Men, Engineering, Design

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

  Bob Dole

  Trying, Done, Republican

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.

  Jennie Garth

  Sitting, Eating, Couches

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• I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Believe, Esoteric

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• A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

  Lou Gerstner

  Team, People, Leader

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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